he was taken to arkansas by marauders. it is during the civil war when all of the authority has broken down. there is no police, no army in the area to keep order and to so so gangs just come through and said they were confederates. they were just hoodlums. or we are unionists, and of course they are basically gangs of neighborhood teenagers. they kidnapped him and they brought him to arkansas, with with his mother. well, his mother got separated from him and she was never ever found, but his owner sent traded himer him, for a racehorse and brought him back. he raised him. this kindly white man taught george carver, carver george as he was known then, to play the fiddle, because he couldn't teach him to read because he couldn't read himself. he was totally illiterate. when little carver is 10 years old, he desperately wants to go to school. the white school in the town where he lived in missouri wouldn't have him. so, with the carver's permission , he went 10 miles to a new freedmen's bureau school that was opening in miss